Ximena T. Evans

Core Leadership / High-Level Scope Program Delivery / Multi-Platform Execution Systems Engineering & SW/HW Integration Functional Safety & Compliance Global Process Leadership / Agile Transformation Organizational Leadership & Strategy

• Led a 30-engineer embedded controls organization responsible for clutch control, solenoid actuation, pressure management, and shift-execution algorithms across gasoline, diesel, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid transmission systems.
• Owned ECU-level control strategy for shift execution, torque management, and propulsion interfaces, ensuring software/parameter integration aligned with GM’s global embedded systems architecture.
• Delivered MY26–MY27 embedded control software across 11 vehicle programs, successfully completing 6 engineering milestone gates per program and aligning control strategies across two transmission product families.
• Directed clutch control strategy across 11 GM Truck/SUV platforms, ensuring seamless SW/HW synchronization, torque-path consistency, and system readiness in partnership with torque converter teams and SW integration teams.
• Drove system integration readiness by aligning embedded control parameters with propulsion, driveline, and hybrid supervisory controllers throughout prototype, development, and launch phases.
• Executed validation strategies ensuring embedded software performance, drivability, safety behavior, and system-level quality across new programs, carryover programs, and hardware changes.
• Partnered with Functional Safety teams (ISO 26262) to confirm calibrated torque, shift, and propulsion control parameters satisfied ASIL-derived safety goals and safety mechanism behaviors (monitoring, thresholds, fallbacks).
• Developed and led the Agile operating framework for Calibration & Controls, defining processes, tools, and governance now adopted by 400+ propulsion engineers across GM’s Embedded Controls, Calibration, and SW Integration functions.
• Enabled self-organizing teams by removing impediments, establishing technical governance, and driving continuous improvement aligned with GM Behaviors.
• Managed resource planning, staffing, and headcount allocation across multiple propulsion programs to meet global timing, quality, and system-integration milestones.
• Directed $400M+ organizational budget for GM’s Engine & Transmission organization (capital, engineering, labs, operations), ensuring cost alignment with multi-year product strategy.
• Led culture, safety, and engineering excellence initiatives, directing technical forums, strategy reviews, and cross-functional engineering councils.
• Authored and implemented the Calibration Modernization Strategy, improving delivery efficiency, parameter quality, and SW/Cal synchronization across the propulsion organization.
• Developed leadership pipelines and competency-based training programs across a 100-employee Transmission organization, enabling faster onboarding and stronger technical depth.
• Recruited, placed, and oversaw project staff for optimal project results.

• Directed the execution of Thermal Runaway Propagation (TRP) technical content for a global team of 80+ engineers, spanning Milford, remote U.S. contributors, and a 25-person Israeli embedded-controls and battery-systems team.
• Served as the ART’s technical leader, ensuring GM’s global software, battery-integration, and electronics teams developed the right content at the right time to meet program and safety targets.
• Successfully delivered TRP features and safety mechanisms into required software builds, coordinating timing, content readiness, and cross-team dependency management between the ART and deployment organizations.
• Led cross-continent teams in assessing technical delivery risks, developed robust mitigation paths, and maintained PI-level RAOM oversight to ensure TRP content met safety, timing, and integration requirements without build disruption.
• Collaborated with customers, business owners, systems/solution architects, EPIC owners, and Scrum Masters to translate customer and regulatory needs into clear TRP requirements, acceptance criteria, and executable engineering plans.
• Governed architecture alignment across battery-integration controls, embedded software, and HV electronic hardware, ensuring safe, compliant integration of TRP functionality with ASIL-rated propulsion and battery systems.
• Managed ART capacity, metrics, and nonfunctional requirements, driving execution quality, predictable delivery cadence, and cross-functional transparency.
• Led process innovation, system demos, and continuous improvement forums in a high-stakes environment involving safety-critical embedded software, HV battery controls, and global engineering interfaces.

• Chief of Staff for GM’s Digital Cockpit organization, supporting delivery of all HMI and infotainment software, including instrument clusters, center stack displays, HUDs, embedded apps, and connected-vehicle features across GM’s global portfolio.
• Coordinated and governed execution for a 600+ engineer global software organization, aligning roadmaps, dependencies, and engineering readiness across embedded software development, HMI frameworks, UI/UX, system integration, validation, and customer-program teams.
• Oversaw $146M+ engineering budget covering capital equipment, labs, software tooling, headcount, supplier engagements, and multi-year investment planning for infotainment, display electronics, ADAS compute, and SW platform development.
• Directed monthly technical and financial operating rhythms (forecasting, headcount planning, capital allocation, performance metrics) ensuring alignment to corporate priorities, customer-program timing, and quality targets.
• Led planning and execution for two major organizational restructures, driving continuity across software, electronics, HIL/SIL validation, systems engineering, and ADAS feature teams.
• Collaborated with software architects, display/HMI hardware teams, connectivity architects, and ADAS leadership to align product definitions, architectural decisions, ECU resource planning, and release strategies.
• Partnered with program teams to ensure infotainment feature readiness, escalating risks, resolving software/hardware integration issues, and driving cross-functional convergence with systems, validation, cybersecurity, and manufacturing.
• Established portfolio and governance systems enabling predictable software releases, improved cross-team communication, and transparent progress tracking across multiple global software stacks.
• Drove efficiency and maturity improvements across the organization, enabling accelerated delivery of infotainment and cockpit software, improved issue resolution flow, and stronger global team alignment.
• Supported HIL/SIL strategy and lab coordination, ensuring availability of test infrastructure, toolchains, and validation assets for embedded software and HMI feature development.

• Owned ECU integration and software/hardware synchronization for the Vehicle Integration Control Module (VICM), ensuring robust embedded-software performance across GM’s EV portfolio.
• Launched the 2023 Hummer EV and 2024 Cadillac Lyriq, delivering VICM feature sets, software releases, PPV readiness, and system-level validation in alignment with vehicle, propulsion, diagnostics, and digital cockpit teams.
• Executed end-to-end SW/HW integration reviews, issue triage, calibration handoffs, and interface alignment across propulsion controls, body controls, diagnostics, connectivity, and ADAS domains.
• Acted as Product Owner for Super VICM, defining architecture, feature roadmaps, user stories, non-functional requirements, and subsystem risk management.
• Led the recovery of a behind-schedule Tier-1 supplier, driving software delivery discipline, interface alignment, and defect closure to unblock VICM integration; established joint war-rooms, escalation pathways, and delivery cadence to stabilize execution.
• Directed the cross-functional effort to resolve 700+ VICM integration issues, coordinating CIE controller integration engineers, software owners, systems teams, and suppliers to secure on-time EV launch readiness.

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• Led end-to-end integration of propulsion, transmission, and driveline ECUs across multiple EV and ICE programs, ensuring software/hardware compatibility, signal integrity, and timing alignment.
• Owned ECU interface definitions, CAN/LIN messaging, diagnostics, and system-level interaction for torque management, shift scheduling, and propulsion responses.
• Coordinated propulsion cross-subsystem integration, such as cybersecurity and thermal management, to ensure seamless function execution across hybrid and EV powertrain architectures.
• Managed SW/HW synchronization, release timing, and interface maturity with calibration, software, and embedded-controls teams.
• Developed integration test plans (HIL/SIL/vehicle) and supported root-cause analysis for interface, timing, sensor, and synchronization failures.
• Served as primary interface for Tier-1 suppliers delivering controllers, ensuring issue resolution, delivery timing, and system-level compliance.
• Enabled major propulsion and calibration launches by driving issue burndown, risk tracking, and system readiness reviews.

• Owned ECU development, release, validation, and lifecycle management for four Engine Control Modules (ECMs) and propulsion-control hardware across next-generation ICE and hybrid architectures.
• Unified software, hardware, and calibration requirements into integrated ECU release packages, ensuring compliance with GM Engineering Standard Work (ESW) and Global Vehicle Development Process (GVDP).
• Led engineering BOM ownership, change management (A/D releases), and supplier SOW definition, driving decisions that impacted ECU cost, performance, durability, and timing.
• Partnered with embedded controls, software, diagnostics, and calibration teams to align functional requirements, timing, and safety mechanisms for ASIL-rated propulsion systems.
• Directed DVP&R planning, EMC testing, environmental durability validation, and system-level integration testing, ensuring ECU readiness for vehicle programs.
• Led supplier technical reviews and issue resolution across ECU hardware builds, PCB layout changes, ASIC updates, connectors, and mechanical housings.
• Led sourcing strategy and supplier selection for GM’s newest generation of Propulsion Control Modules (PCMs).
• Served as Discipline Lead for ECM and TCM DREs, setting technical expectations, coaching DREs, and governing release quality across a team of 20 DRES.
• Ensured ECU compliance with safety, cybersecurity, regulatory, and manufacturing readiness requirements across PPV, GPDS gates, and production transitions.

• Conducted systems-level verification & validation for Chevrolet Volt Gen 1/Gen 2, Cadillac ELR, and Malibu Hybrid, ensuring correct behavior of electric-drive propulsion, power electronics, and high-voltage control systems.
• Executed extreme-environment vehicle testing (thermal, altitude, cold-soak, durability), validating software, calibration, and electronics performance across safety-critical driving conditions.

• Performed validation of electrified propulsion components, including inverters, battery controls, electric drive units, thermal-management controls, and energy-flow logic for hybrid/EREV platforms.
• Verified embedded-controls behavior, sensor plausibility, and diagnostics (UDS/OBD) for hybrid propulsion modules, contributing to safe and reliable controller integration.

• Provided customer, dealer, and field engineering support, triaging high-voltage and embedded-controls issues and feeding learnings back into calibration, software, and hardware teams.
• Led vehicle-level issue reproduction and root-cause analysis, partnering with DREs, software engineers, and suppliers to resolve electronics and control-strategy defects.

• Coordinated with controls, software, calibration, diagnostics, and validation teams to ensure system-level alignment for hybrid and extended-range propulsion systems.
• Authored test documentation, validation reports, and engineering assessments supporting safety, reliability, and launch-readiness for GM hybrid/EV platforms.

• Supported verification against functional-safety requirements (ASIL-B+), ensuring fault detection, limp-home strategies, and safe operation of high-voltage controls.

• 3.99 GPA

• 4.0 GPA

• 3.8 GPA